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Dynamic DNS with freedns ​

This tutorial will show you how to configure your frii.site domain to support DDNS with freends.afraid.org.

1. Create an account on https://freedns.afraid.org ​

Diret link: https://freedns.afraid.org/signup/Signup page NOTE: Please use your own email address.

2. Add your domain to freedns ​

  • For the Domain field, use what ever domain you want to. In this guide, we will be using "yourdynamicdns.frii.site"
  • It is very important that you set the Shared State to Shared: Private.

Navigating to adding a domain

Adding a new domain

3. Link your domain over on frii.site ​

When you clicked "submit" on the last part, you might have seen a warning about a broken domain. That's what we'll fix next. Broken domain warning

3.0. Create a domain on frii.site if you haven't already ​

3.1. Change the type to be NS and the content to be ns1.afraid.org ​

What the domain looks like on frii.site Click save to save the changes

3.2. Verifying the record on freedns ​

Go to the [ MainMenu ] section of the website, and click "Check for Broken domains".

Click Check for Broken domains button in Main Menu

NOTE

If you get an error here, please confirm that you typed out the value field correctly. If you just modified the domain, please wait a bit before trying again

4. Adding a subdomain ​

Once you've added a domain, you should see some pre-made subdomains on the [ Subdomains ] page.

New subdomain button

NOTE

You can't delete these just yet, we have to create a new subdomain first.

Click the add button to create a new record.

Please select your domain if it wasn't selected by default. You can leave all the other fields to their default values. What the record looks like when the info is filled out

5. Confirmation ​

You should now see your domain listed in the subdomains What the page should look like

NOTE

The pre-existing records were deleted in the screenshot. However, this is not required. ´

6. Setting up DDNS ​

Inside the [ Main Menu ], go to the DDNS section. Going to DDNS page

Then find your domain, and click the "Direct URL" link. Direct URL href highlighted

Now copy the string after question mark Direct URL href highlighted

7. Setting up the router ​

WARNING

Since your router is almost guaranteed to be different from the one used in this guide, we haven't included steps on how to find the DDNS settings.

WARNING

The steps below may not work for your router. This guide was made on a ZTE MC888

Once you're in your router's settings, configure your DDNS settings appropriately.

NOTE

Since we are using the domain update URL, we don't need to specify a username or password. My router forced me to, so I put "a" into both fields.

Direct URL href highlighted